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From the Time.com link:
| Quote: | That means that the 100 billion or so galaxies we can now see though our telescopes will zip out of range, one by one. Tens of billions of years from now, the Milky Way will be the only galaxy we're directly aware of (other nearby galaxies, including the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Andromeda galaxy, will have drifted into, and merged with, the Milky Way).
By then the sun will have shrunk to a white dwarf, giving little light and even less heat to whatever is left of Earth, and entered a long, lingering death that could last 100 trillion years—or a thousand times longer than the cosmos has existed to date. The same will happen to most other stars, although a few will end their lives as blazing supernovas. Finally, though, all that will be left in the cosmos will be black holes, the burnt-out cinders of stars and the dead husks of planets. The universe will be cold and black.
But that's not the end, according to University of Michigan astrophysicist Fred Adams. An expert on the fate of the cosmos and co-author with Greg Laughlin of The Five Ages of the Universe (Touchstone Books; 2000), Adams predicts that all this dead matter will eventually collapse into black holes. By the time the universe is 1 trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion years old, the black holes themselves will disintegrate into stray particles, which will bind loosely to form individual "atoms" larger than the size of today's universe. Eventually, even these will decay, leaving a featureless, infinitely large void. And that will be that—unless, of course, whatever inconceivable event that launched the original Big Bang should recur, and the ultimate free lunch is served once more. |
That's a pretty grim fate.. Where do religious peoplle think they will be living for the rest of eternity?
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tonyman1989
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:13 am Post subject: |
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| ApostateLois wrote: | From the Time.com link:
| Quote: | That means that the 100 billion or so galaxies we can now see though our telescopes will zip out of range, one by one. Tens of billions of years from now, the Milky Way will be the only galaxy we're directly aware of (other nearby galaxies, including the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Andromeda galaxy, will have drifted into, and merged with, the Milky Way).
By then the sun will have shrunk to a white dwarf, giving little light and even less heat to whatever is left of Earth, and entered a long, lingering death that could last 100 trillion years—or a thousand times longer than the cosmos has existed to date. The same will happen to most other stars, although a few will end their lives as blazing supernovas. Finally, though, all that will be left in the cosmos will be black holes, the burnt-out cinders of stars and the dead husks of planets. The universe will be cold and black.
But that's not the end, according to University of Michigan astrophysicist Fred Adams. An expert on the fate of the cosmos and co-author with Greg Laughlin of The Five Ages of the Universe (Touchstone Books; 2000), Adams predicts that all this dead matter will eventually collapse into black holes. By the time the universe is 1 trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion years old, the black holes themselves will disintegrate into stray particles, which will bind loosely to form individual "atoms" larger than the size of today's universe. Eventually, even these will decay, leaving a featureless, infinitely large void. And that will be that—unless, of course, whatever inconceivable event that launched the original Big Bang should recur, and the ultimate free lunch is served once more. |
That's a pretty grim fate.. Where do religious peoplle think they will be living for the rest of eternity? |
With jesus.
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Well, I hope Jesus lives in a nicer universe, one that isn't going to wind up disintegrating into a vast nothingness. This is one more reason not to believe in "intelligent" design. What would be the point of going to all the trouble to create the universe only to have it fall apart? If God wants everyone to live in a magical, invisible realm that's somehow separate from the physical realm, why bother making a physical realm at all? God always comes across as being a really bad planner, afaic.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:16 pm Post subject: Re: religion says the universe is dying |
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| tonyman1989 wrote: | Has anyone heard about religion saying the universe is close to death? they use these as science proof.
I went to wikipedia and looked up the fate of the universe and star will stop being made at the age of 100 trillioin years old.
heres the link
if this number is true then the universe is only .0137 percent of its lifetime of stars.
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100 trillion years of new elements being created . . . that's AWESOME!!
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| Quote: | | Well, I hope Jesus lives in a nicer universe, |
of course he's jesus
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Jesus IS the universe!
I think he's going to eat Earth as a snack.
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